My Story

I am running the world-famous London Marathon on Sunday, April 20th, 2025, for Fight for Sight!

I will run 26.2 miles through the city alongside 40,000 fellow athletes! 

I've been a runner all my life, but the thought of taking on this iconic challenge terrifies me - so why am I doing it?

Every six minutes, someone in the UK receives the news that they are losing their sight. Imagine it. At that moment, they face two profound questions:

• Can this be stopped?
• How do I live my life?

Working for Fight for Sight, I know that we're uniquely placed to answer both questions positively. We fund the brilliant minds and bright ideas putting change in sight for everyone impacted by vision loss. 

We're funding scientists who will help us better understand, diagnose, prevent, and treat vision loss. The social change projects we fund are changing the lives of people who are blind or vision impaired, building connections to other people and nature, and growing confidence. 

The amount of public money currently spent on the problem is nowhere near enough - only 1.5% of UK medical research is invested in finding new ways to prevent, diagnose or treat sight loss.

This equates to just £9.60 for each person living with vision loss. 

I know that together, we can "Save Sight. Change lives!"

I'm willing to put in the training - please sponsor me if you can.